{"product_id":"no-confession-no-mass-paperback-softback-9780803277236","title":"No Confession, No Mass (Paperback \/ softback) 9780803277236","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNo Confession, No Mass\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Perrine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803277236, University of Nebraska Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e82 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.156 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNo Confession, No Mass\u003c\/i\u003e is lyrical, inventive, and full of surprises, offering us fresh ways of seeing old stories. The music is a delight throughout-agile and apt-language enjoying itself! Jennifer Perrine writes: ‘and returned her whole, startled raw, launched her back into the world.’ This is what fine poetry can do-and \u003ci\u003eNo Confession, No Mass\u003c\/i\u003e does it.”-Ellen Bass, author of \u003ci\u003eLike a Beggar\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in \u003ci\u003eNo Confession, No Mass\u003c\/i\u003e move toward restoration and reunion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide-in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in JuÁrez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own complicity in violence, “not confessing, but unearthing” former selves who were brutal and brutalized-and treating them with compassion. As the poems work through these seeming paradoxes, they also find joy, celebrating transformations and second chances, whether after the failure of a marriage, the return of a reluctant soldier from war, or the everyday passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the play of language in received forms-abecedarian, sonnet, ballad, ghazal, villanelle, ballade-and in free verse buzzing with assonance, alliteration, and rhyme, these poems sing their resistance to violence in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvocation: [Saint] Genevieve\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mother, the Girl, the Mirror That Speaks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo Chant Back the Summer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumility   Pride\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Lone Man at the Violence Prevention Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbarrassment: from \u003ci\u003ebaraço\u003c\/i\u003e (halter)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnvy   Kindness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter My Mother's Death, I Feel Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eII.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvocation: [Saint] Euphrosyne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Theory of Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Divorcée's Fable\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSong of the Bystander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiblokto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Theory of Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Tis of Thee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreed   Charity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMobility\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatience   Wrath\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Theory of Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIII.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvocation: The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and Vows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-Portrait as Francis Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLetter to Half a Lifetime Ago\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove Song with Condemned Building\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLust\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCall Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLust   Chastity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWild Child (Slight Return)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI Would Rather Die a Thousand Deaths\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOde to the Motorcycle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDead Letter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvocation: [Saint] Pharaïldis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePastoral for Our Uncharted Territories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFishwife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTemperance   Gluttony\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mystic Speaks of Attachment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfidence Game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWow and Flutter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiligence   Sloth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElegy for My Morbid Curiosity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappiness: from \u003ci\u003ehap\u003c\/i\u003e (fortune, luck)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoronal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeconds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607699452184,"sku":"9780803277236","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/no-confession-no-mass-paperback-softback-9780803277236","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}